Artist Statement: My attempt to redefine the archetypal pop culture style/form of painting, and emphasize the relationships between people, music and culture has led me on a search to capture and illustrate life as we experience it in its most true form. My art is a reflection of my internal world where I strive to understand the internal experience all people share when they are encounter their emotional response to the world. My art uses color, dimension, shape, and form to evoke symbolic meaning and emotion. I have incorporated multiple visual styles, diverse materials, deconstructed domestic patterns, and images of popular culture into the work in an investigation of the pluralistic, multifaceted, and complex condition of life in the contemporary societies around the world. Unique Component: Where my art conventionally is designed to address and illustrate the aforementioned, it also serves as an open door into the world of color-blind created artwork. Due to this impairment (colorblindness: red/green), working to create these pieces is a labor of love for me, and even more so, a perpetual challenge to understand how the rest of the people in this world see color, composition, tones, shadows, and ultimately how they experience life through their eyes. This brings an added unique quality to my art, one not seen in much of the art world.